Riding High (Faze-O album)

Riding High
Studio album by
Faze-O
Released1977
Recorded1977 at Paragon Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
GenreFunk
Length31:54
LabelShe Records
ProducerTight Corporation
Faze-O chronology
Riding High
(1977) 		Good Thang
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Riding High is the first album by the Dayton, Ohio funk band Faze-O.[2] Released in 1977 on Atlantic Records subsidiary label, She Records, it was produced by the Ohio Players. They would chart in 1978 with the top ten R&B single, "Riding High".

"Riding High" went on to be an oft-sampled song for many hip hop and R&B acts from the late 1980s onwards.[3] It was first sampled in Fresh Four's "Wishing on a Star" in 1989, produced by The High & Mighty.

Tracks

  1. "Riding High" - 5:21
  2. "Funky Reputation" - 5:10
  3. "You And I (Belong Together)" - 5:20
  4. "Toe Jam" - 4:59
  5. "True Love" - 3:19
  6. "Get Some Booty" - 2:49
  7. "Test - This Is Faze-O" - 4:44

Personnel

Faze-O

  • Keith Harrison - Arp, Clavinet, composer, Fender Rhodes, keyboards, Minimoog, percussion, piano, electric piano, lead and backing vocals
  • Ralph "Love" Aikens - guitar, talk box, lead and backing vocals
  • Tyrone "Flye" Crum - bass, backing vocals
  • Robert Neal Jr. - percussion, lead and backing vocals
  • Roger Parker - drums, percussion

Additional Musicians

  • Robert "C.D." Jones - congas
  • Bobby Lewis, Jack Kramer, Paul Serrano - trumpets

Charts

Album

Year Album Chart positions[4]
US US
R&B
1978 Riding High 98 19

Single

Year Single Peak chart positions
US R&B[5]
1978 "Riding High" 9

References

  1. ^ Riding High at AllMusic
  2. ^ Wynn, Ron. "Biography". ALLMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
  3. ^ Muggs, Joe; Stevens, Brian (2020). Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture. MIT Press. p. 543. ISBN 1913689050.
  4. ^ "Faze-O US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  5. ^ "Faze-O US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
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